January 17, 2005

  • Poker recap…

    Last Thursday I had the only poker night of the weekend. I thought more would come which is why this post is so late.

    We started with a tourney again. I caught well and went into the merge in second place to Gable. And so, as big stacks we cleaned it up a bit until there were three.

    Allison was small enough that we ate her up nicely and at a quick pace, making it two.

    But she got her money back, so I think she was happy.

    Gable and I pushed ourselves a bit until we both had top pair with queens. I had a seven kicker and he had a five. He kept betting hard, and I kept calling until the end, where he spiked a five on the river.

    Then a few hands later, I didn’t raise with A 2 thinking that if he didn’t raise preflop and an ace came up I would push hard. Sure enough an ace comes up and he reraises my 15 dollars with forty more. I take a while and go all in to find he did not raise preflop with an A J, and basically worked me for the 90 dollar win.

    But I got second and ten profit.

    Of course, while the final table of the tourney raged on, the cash game started. Depalma played like crazy and got lucky. He scared everyone until neal finally took him out with A high on a bold play. He then proceeded to tell me he was just going to sit tight and not be very aggressive. So when I got low pair with twos and an ace kicker, I went all in, thinking he would never call that. He instantly throws his money in the pot and shows me pocket kings. Damn! But then, the miraculous turn brought forth an A and I take the pot with two pair.

    Neal leaves early with about 50 dolores.

    Mike worked it at the end flying under the radar, and left the winner with 80.

    And I did not fare so bad either, slowplaying a flush on John to clean him out. I walked out fifty dollars richer.

    This is what Gager thought about his loss.

    At the beginning of the evening, Depalma brought a friend that we both shared.

    And John and i ended the night with pizza.

    Oh, and I went back through the blog and found that my plus seventy count of last poker update was actually a minus 30. So now I am finally in the black, up twenty.